A ROCK festival dubbed the "Glastonbury of the North" is set to be revived to mark its 30th anniversary.

And one of the founders of the Deeply Vale Rock Festival, near Ramsbottom, has said Indie acts Doves and Badly Drawn Boy are interested in performing.

Chris Hewitt hopes the festival will be resurrected in 2006 and will feature original performers like Pete Farro, Steve Hillage and Tractor.

The festival was launched in 1976 with the help of the late DJ legend John Peel, who signed Tractor to his Dandelion label.

The money from that helped to buy equipment to put on the festival which in its first year attracted only 300 people.

However, it enjoyed a meteoric rise attracting a crowd of 20,000 in 1979 before legislation governing congregating in public forced it to end.

Tractor manager, Chris, 50, said: "This is a tribute to John. Without him there would have been no Deeply Vale."

The original festival will be the subject of a documentary to be screened on Friday.

John Peel was asked to narrate the programme but on a trip to Peru, he died after a heart attack.

Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale is scheduled to be broadcast on ITV1 on Friday at 11.30pm.